Leslie has appreciated the responses on this forum.  Here is another message from her:

"Thank you Shelley! I will try to figure out how to pass these on to her. She said she would welcome phone calls and I will pass on her address as soon as I get it. She is at 573-355-8190. She has good days and bad days. Sometimes her thoughts wander so you can reiterate the point so she gets back to it (I think she forgets what she's talking about). Sometimes she just uses the wrong words. She wanted to make sure people knew she wasn't "the same""

Shelley Hahn

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Isobel Bishop via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I remember Neva well and am so sad to hear this news.
My prayers and my candle light are for her.
In peace,
Isobel

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On 27 Oct 2016, at 9:55 am, via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

Sad.  I remember her fondly.  Please pass to Leslie the question I have as a health care worker, “Is Neva “fit” to make her legal decisions, ie hire an attorney and change her power of attorney either for health care or finance/property.”

 

Mary Hampton (OTR)

 

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From: Shelley Hahn via OE
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 1:44 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Neva (Forbes) Reece

 

I am passing along everyone's kind words to Leslie to share with her family.

 

Shelley

 

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2@gmail.com> wrote:

Sad news indeed. Your pain is acknowledged and received with compassion. Neva and I go way back to the late 1960s in Lincoln, NB. We were a part of the Lincoln Metro Cadre and the Kansas City Region when Terry Wright and I were Regional coordinators. Neva worked as my church secretary at Trinity UCC. We lost touch through the years but she was a stalwart and a strong presence in everything we worked for, and I never forgot the many experiences we shared. I am sorry to hear of her difficulties in recent years and the burden this has placed on Leslie and Doug. There may be consolation in the words of Robert Adams, which he often repeated: “You are not the body. You are not the mind. There is only Love.” Neva’s spirit hopefully is shining through her current battles and will be acknowledged and received with compassion, for sure by the mystery, if not by all of us. Peace and Love, MM

 

Milan Hamilton

Aka Mellowmilan

80 North Center Street

Redlands, CA 92373

909-735-5163 (H)

909-556-5815 (M)

E-mail: mellowmilan2@gmail.com

Blog: www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com

Blog 2: www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com

 

 

 

From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Shelley Hahn via OE
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 11:00 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Neva (Forbes) Reece

 

Leslie Forbes asked if I would share the following update re: her mother, Neva (Forbes) Reece.  I asked if there is an address where people might send a card or note; she doesn't kknow the address but is trying to get it and will share it when she does.

 

"My biological mother, Neva Reece, had a brain injury several years ago where her word-finding and word-understanding is impaired (she has a hard time talking and understanding and cannot read). She also has issues with rational thought and cannot do any numbers at all. I have been her medical and financial power of attorney until she hired a lawyer to remove me without my knowledge as she had done with my eldest brother. She is now a ward of the county and has been found to have pancreatic cancer. I do not get phone calls returned often so the information is sketchy. Doctors have not returned my phone call, but my brother Doug is on his way there for a consult where they will decide to have an invasive surgery or not. She is currently in a secured facility nursing home (she twice hit a resident at the unsecured facility so was moved). Her letters and phone calls are fairly incomprehensible. My brother and I talk it through to see what she might be talking about. I have been holding off posting this thinking that I would have a better picture of prognosis since I have been told it's dormant, but since they are talking about invasive surgery I don't know."  -- from Leslie Forbes

 

Please keep Neva in your thoughts and prayers.

 

Shelley Hahn

 

 

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